[TriLUG] content manager for desktop PC

[Jon Carnes]

If you are going that route, then you can use the lists here to simply
have SquidGuard block access to naughty sites:

  wget -o /backup/squidGuard_database/download.log \
     http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/blacklists.tgz

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 16:25, Tom Woods wrote:
> If you're willing to replace your router with an older PC with 2 nics, 
> check out http://ipcop.sourceforge.net.
> 
> IPCop includes Squid, and DansGuardian can be added very easily through 
> the "AddOns" system.  Everything is administered via a web-based 
> interface (although the DansG administration sometimes opens up text 
> files for you to directly edit.)  It's a nice little setup.  I used it 
> for quite a while, but decided it made more sense for me to use a small 
> router than a pc.  It was a bit of work getting DansG to block the right 
> stuff...  Out of the box it was blocking sites like mail.yahoo.com...  
> So plan on spending some time getting it the way you liike it.
> 
> For support there is a very high traffic list (100+ messages/day) that 
> can be searched.  It's not bad, but usually you have to wade through a 
> lot of junk before you find what you're looking for.
> 
> The hardware you use can be quite old.  I was using a 233MHz PII.  500MB 
> to 1GB of HD should be plenty.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> Dan Monjar wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for something that will monitor and perhaps block the web 
> > sites my kids go to. Any recommendations?  I'm already doing some 
> > stuff at the router but it is just primarily keyword blocking.
> >